We know, because of what we know about similar ancient desert lakes, we know that the lakes didn't last very long, from a few months to a few years on average.

而我们知道，出于我们对类似的古代沙漠湖泊的了解，我们知道这些湖泊并没有持续很长时间，平均从几个月到几年不等。

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Collectors prize the ancient life-size clay statues of human figures made on Kali Island but have long wondered how Kalinese artists were able to depict bodies with such realistic precision.

收藏家们很珍惜卡利岛上制作的古代真人大小的泥人雕像，但长期以来一直想知道卡里亚的艺术家们是如何能够以如此逼真的精度描绘人体的。

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But this isn't a long paper, so are you going to need to pick a specific area of pre-modern agriculture, like irrigation or food crops of ancient Greece.

但这不是一篇很长的论文，所以你要选定一个现代以前农业的特定领域，像是灌溉技术，或古希腊的粮食作物。

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Ancient Greek myths told of a time long ago when people lived in peace and happiness.

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When a slave is freed--and in the Ancient World, in the Roman Empire, most slaves were eventually freed, - unless they just died before long-- they became a freed man.

当一名奴隶被释放。。。在古罗马帝国，几乎所有奴隶最终都会被释放，除非他们很早就去世-,成为脱离奴隶身份的人。

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As he puts it in the dedication of his most famous book, he writes that this book The Prince "is a product of long experience with modern things " and a continuous reading of the ancient ones."

从而催生出,他最呕心沥血的大作，他笔下的《君王论》,“是一部,对现代事物长久体验,与持续阅读古籍的结晶“

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If, like us, you struggle to read the front of the Corn Flakes box of a morning, you likely gave up any hope of cracking ancient codes long ago.

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They are making connections across old borders, breaking down traditional barriers, crossing ancient divides and smashing long-established walls of prejudice.

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Whichever ancient Mayans devised this long, long con are probably laughing at us from their perch in Mayan heaven right now.

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